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Published - Nov 5th, 2009
By By Lynne Turner
As of Sept. 20 OPP officers had spent 524.50 hours on foot patrol in Arthur and 489.50 hours on foot patrol in Mount Forest.
Inspector Scott Smith of the Wellington County Detachment told Wellington North Council, in a letter tabled Monday evening that “foot patrol is an important component of policing. Not only does it prevent crime but it allows for greater and easier interaction between the police and the community.”
Smith said foot patrols “are conducted as operational needs commit.”
Council had asked the OPP for information about foot patrols in the two communities, after a letter was received by the Mount Forest BIA raising concerns about bicycles and skateboards on town streets.
“I guess it seems like a lot of hours,” Councillor Dan Yake said Monday, “but my question or concern was the fact that I wanted to know when the hours (of foot patrol) are taking place. To be effective the hours need to be done at the proper times, when people are out walking and when the bicycles and skateboards are out. The presence of the police when these things are going on should deter it. I want to see the right number of hours at the right times.”
He wondered if police officers checking doors late at night constituted foot patrol hours.
Mayor Mike Broomhead suggested having someone from the OPP and someone from the County’s Police Services Board come to a future meeting of council, adding that the board “seems a little bit reluctant on having a county-wide bylaw” restricting bicycles and skateboards.
That bit of news raised more concerns for Yake.
“I thought things were moving along (with regards to a bylaw),” he said. “Now you say there’s reluctance with the police services board. Someone is going to get hurt or killed (before anything is done about bicycles and skateboards on urban streets.)”
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